Hair-crimper



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SERENO E. NORTON, OF OHIO/AGO, ILLINOIS..

HAIR-CRIIVIPER.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,877, dated August25, 1885.

Application filed September 11, 1584. (No model.)

T0 all whom i may concern:

Beit known that I, SERENO E. N oieroN. a citizen of the United States,residing in Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Hair Crimpers or Ourlers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hair erimpers or curlers whereinthe hair is done u p as in the ordinary papers commonly in use; and itconsists in a thin flat strip of taggers tin or like non-'elastic metal,surrounded with a cloth or fibrous cover provided with a pro.

jeeting flap on one edge to fold over the end of the hair, to hold thesame while it is being wrapped around the crimper. By making the thinflat metal strip of taggers tin the tin coating of the metal preventsthe lnoisture of the hair from causing any rusting or oxida* tion ofthemetal, as would be the case if uncoated soft iron, lead, or other likemetal were employed, it being customary to meisten the hair before doingit up in this manner, in order to cause it to curl properly. The clothcovering also acts as a protection to the hair, keeping the metal fromcutting it, and the projeetingil'ap serves effectually to hold theextremity ofthe hair when the same is folded over it, so that thesucceeding wraps clamp the end of the hair between the fiap and the bodyof the crimper.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specilication,Figure l is a plan view of my improved hair-crimper. Fig. 2 is anenlarged erossscction, and Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view,showing the llap folded over the extremity ol' the hair. Fig. 4 is across-sectional view showing liaps extending from both sides.

In the drawings, A represents .the thin flat nonelastic metal strip,which I make of taggers tin. B is the fibrous covering surrounding thesame, provided at one edge with the prqiecting llap b, which should beof about the same width as the body of the crimper. rlhis covering orenvelope B, I preferably make of ordinary white muslin or other thincloth, and secure it to the metal strip A by folding one edge of thecloth over the same and securing it by a seam or line of stitching, b'.rlhe edge b of the cloth should preferably be folded and stitched under,as shown in Fig. 2, so as not to leave the raw edge thereof p rojectin.

In manufacturing the crimpers 'the cloth is preferably first folded andseamed, and then the sheet-metal strips, of suitable width and of anyconvenient length, inserted in the sheath thus formed for it, and,linally, the strip thus covered cut into the required lengths-usuallyabout two inches.. The strip of taggers tin, while it is non-elastic andpliable, so that its ends maybe readily bent and folded over uponitself, is still stiff enough to be readily inserted in the sheath orenvelope B.

In Fig. flaps are shown on both sides or edges of the crimper. Thisconstruction of the invention affords additional and better means ofholding the end ofthe hair.

The sheath B and the flap or flaps b may be made in separate pieces, ifdesired, as shown, for example, in Fig. 4C, and the sheath or envelopeproper may be formed by a seam or line of stitching, as shown, or bypasting or Acementing the fibrous covering, or by braiding or weaving itin the form of a sheath, in which latter case the flap. should be madeof a separate piece, and may be most conveniently se cured to the sheathor envelope B by pasting or gluing it thereto.

I am aware that heretofore hair criinpcrs or curlers have been madewherein a thin strip oflead is surrounded by knitor braided coveringcemented to the metal, as shown in United States Letters Patent N o.218,300, granted to Mills and Hershey; but the braided sheath thereshown is not provided with any projecting flap for securing the end ofthe hair, and the metal strip ol" lead there en1 ployed oxidizes more orless under the action of the air and moisture, and tends more or less todiscolor and injure the hair itself and the health of the wearer. I alsodisclaim the hair -crimpers shown and described in the Patents No.297,911., to Blakesley, and No. 309,854, to Heysinger.

I claim-a l. The combination of the thin flat nonelastic sheet-metalstrip A with a cloth or fibrous covering, B, provided with a projectingflap, b, adapted to fold lengthwise of the crimper to secure the end ofthe hair, subA stantiall y as specified.

2. The eombiuation of the thin [lait noucovering, B, surrounding thesame, and pro- Io elastic sheet-metal strip A, made of taggei's videdwith projecting aps I), adapted to fold tin,with the cloth covering B,folded over tl e lengthwise of the crimper on both sides, submetalstrip, and having one edge Secured by stautially as speeilied.

5 a seam b and the other projecting to form a I ildp, b, adapted to foldlengthwise of the,l SEHEN() E' NORTON' crimper, substantially :isspecified. Vitnesses:

SThe combination ofthe t-llin flat non- H. M. MUNDAY,

elastic sheet-metal strip A with a brous LEWIS E. CURTIS.

